motor ataxia

Questions about motor ataxia

What does motor ataxia mean?

motor ataxia means "inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait".

What is another word for motor ataxia?

Close synonyms include ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motor ataxia a common word?

motor ataxia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.